{"id":1491,"date":"2018-09-21T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:47:13","slug":"croton-man-whould-totally-overthrow-government-but-then-hed-have-to-get-dressed-leave-house-bummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"Croton man would totally overthrow government, but then he&#8217;d have to get dressed, leave house &#8211; bummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><strong> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad36b748c200c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Croton revolt\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad36b748c200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad36b748c200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Croton revolt\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>As reported in the Croton Bee &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/local-man-would-totally-overthrow-government-but-then-hed-have-to-get-dressed-leave-house-ugh\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/local-man-would-totally-overthrow-government-but-then-hed-have-to-get-dressed-leave-house-ugh\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/local-man-would-totally-overthrow-government-but-then-hed-have-to-get-dressed-leave-house-ugh\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Burton told his friends and family Tuesday that he would totally revolt against our \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and \u201cpower-hungry\u201d federal government, but then he\u2019d have to get dressed, leave his house, and, in his own words, \u201cUgh, that just sounds so exhausting.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Burton often complains about government overreach online, stating that the government can try to \u201ccome and take it,\u201d but admitted that he\u2019d probably just let the feds \u201ccome and take it\u201d if he just wasn\u2019t feeling like doing much in the way of sedition or fighting for his God-given rights that day. \u201cDepends on if there was anything good on Hulu at the time. <em>Castle Rock<\/em>\u2018s coming on in a little bit here &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u201cI\u2019d have to like, talk to people and stuff, and I\u2019m just not sure I\u2019m up for that right now. Maybe tomorrow,\u201d he said as he changed his profile picture to the Gadsden Flag. \u201cI am staunchly opposed to the government treading on me, but if the price to stop their oppression is having to walk around my house and try to find some clean clothes in order to organize a rebellion, ugh. I\u2019m just not ready to adult that much today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the Croton Bee &#8211; Burton told his friends and family Tuesday that he would totally revolt against our \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and \u201cpower-hungry\u201d federal government, but then he\u2019d have to get dressed, leave his house, and, in his own words, \u201cUgh, that just sounds so exhausting.\u201d Burton often complains about government overreach online, stating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6164,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}